Convicted Cocoa Village rapist gets second life sentence

7:50 AM,
Nov. 27, 2012

Chad Barger was convicted after six hours of deliberations in September.

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A man convicted of breaking into a Cocoa Village apartment and raping a woman, even trying to set fire to her after the attack, was sentenced Monday to spend his life in prison, officials said.

Chad Everett Barger, 31, is already serving a life term in an October 2001 attack, just 11 months after the Cocoa Village rape. He will serve the new sentence consecutively to the prior life term.

"He is where he belongs," Assistant State Attorney Julia Lynch said. "Society is that much safer with him off the streets. This is a serial rapist who is never going to have a chance to harm someone again." ...